Today at MakerCon, Inventables’ Zach Kaplan announced that the web-based CNC software Easel is moving out of beta testing and into full release.
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Most Popular Language Translation Tool: Google Translate
When you need to translate an email or a webpage, or just a tweet or Facebook post from a friend abroad, you have several good options for the job. Last week we asked you for your favorites , then looked at the five best language translation tools and put them to a vote. Now it’s time to crown the winner.
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Google Is Testing Drones That Could Bring the Internet to Remote Lands
Man, Google really is all in on drones. After testing delivery drones as a part of its Project Wing program
, the company has now asked the FCC for permission to test drones that could eventually be used to deliver internet access to remote areas of the planet.
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NASA asteroid defense system is a failure, says audit
NASA Inspector General Paul Martin has alerted of the awful state of the asteroid defense system, a program mandated by Congress in 2005 to detect and track at least 90 percent near-Earth objects greater than 460 feet (140 meters) in diameter by 2020. This is bad news. From the report:
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Chicago’s New Electric Garbage Trucks Give Trash the Silent Treatment
You know how I know it’s garbage day? Because it’s 5 am and it sounds like the trucks from Pump are getting busy on the curb. VROOOOOM, CRUNCH, SLAM, WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA, SLAM, CRUNCH, VROOOOOM. But some lucky Chicagoans will soon be able to sleep all the way through the night thanks to a new fleet of (mostly) silent dump trucks.
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An Organization Wants to Send You to Space For Free (Maybe)
Always wanted to go to space, but put off by Richard Branson’s beard (or the hundreds of thousands of dollars he also wants
)? A US not-for-profit might be able to get you there on the cheap — but better get crossing those fingers.
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The biggest comparison of sci-fi spaceships ever is complete at last
At last, it’s done. The biggest spaceship size chart ever created is now complete and fully operational. 4,268 x 5,690 pixels of technological terror that includes everything from the smaller Star War ships to EVE. According to its author, Dirk Loechel, this is the last update. It’s epic.
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